Ka-Zar the Savage Vol 1 4

Earth
- Antarctica
  - Pangea
    - ⏴ Gorahn Sea ⏵ (Main story and flashback)
      - Naghen Island ⏵ (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
        Ancient Aerian temple (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
    - Aerie Shalan/Aerie Shalahn (Only in recap)
    - Pteron cave/Aerie Athmeth (Only in flashback)
    - Zarhan (Mentioned)
- Atlantis (Referenced)

Items:

Atlantean thought transfer machine (First appearance)

Synopsis for "When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead!"

Unable to control the skite to which she had been strapped by Dephine, Shanna's journey through a raging storm towards Nahgen Island ends when a bolt of lightning strikes the skite, sending both it and her into the sea below.

Elsewhere in the storm over the Gorhan Sea, Buth tries to convince Ka-Zar to give up his search for Shanna and come back to the shore before his exhausted skite drops them both into the ocean, reminding him that Khup had said that the hoxing skite that Shanna was riding was from an island that had sunk into the sea. Ka-Zar replies that Khup was a liar and a traitor who had killed the Aerian ruler and could have made up the whole story about the sinking island to get rid of Ka-Zar. When Buth states that he knows the area, Ka-Zar points out that the driving rain storm could have driven them miles off course, and tells Buth that he has to go back because Aerie Shalan will need all of its loyal warriors now. As Buth reluctantly leaves, Ka-Zar asks him to watch after his cat, then quietly says good-bye to Buth, Dephine and Typ.

On an island where the storm has passed, Shanna is lying unconscious on a beach beside the dead body of her skite when someone finds her.

Still out at sea, the storm has moved off, but Ka-Zar is still in jeopardy because his skite is failing rapidly. Spotting an island through the morning mist, Ka-Zar guides the skite towards it but the skite can soon no longer fly high enough to avoid the waves and both it and Ka-Zar are dragged under. Unwilling to leave the nearly-unconscious skite behind to drown, Ka-Zar spends two hours dragging the skite through the waves to the safety of the island. After giving the skite some fresh water and tying it up, Ka-Zar is about to search the island when he hears Shanna's scream and runs off to find her cowering from a dinosaur instead of using her knife to defend herself. After killing the creature, Ka-Zar goes to Shanna who recognizes him but doesn't seem to remember anything from before she awoke on the beach. When she doesn't seem to recall Aerie Shalahn or the bird-people, Ka-Zar concludes that she's suffering from a first class case of amnesia and recaps their recent adventures. He speaks of how they met the Aerians, became their allies against the Pterons and had tried to rescue Queen Leanne of Zarhan from the Pteron cave, and of how things had gone wrong and left both her and Leanne dangling over a hole and Ka-Zar had only had time to save one of them. Shanna remembers that part and is oddly upset that he let Leanne fall, but she seems to get over it after she infers that he still loves Leanne, and they start making out.

That night, after Ka-Zar has fallen asleep, Shanna sneaks off to a temple and enters it, going to a chamber where the comatose body of Queen Leanne rests on a slab attached to an advanced machine. As Shanna is about to pull the plug on the body, Sep stops her, saying it might kill her, but Shanna states that it's her body to do with as she likes. When Shanna (who is actually Leanne) claims that the body is going to die anyway, Sep reminds Leanne that it is her body and insists that he will be able to revive it if he just spends a few more days studying the equipment. Leanne doubts that and tells him that he doesn't have a few days because Ka-Zar arrived on the island earlier that evening. Leanne tells Sep that Ka-Zar doesn't suspect anything but expects her to leave with him tomorrow, and if she doesn't, he will eventually find the temple and make Sep put things back the way they were. After telling Sep that, if he loves her, he has to pull the plug on the worthless body and leave the island with her as she is, Leanne leaves the chamber, saying that she will take care of Ka-Zar and be back in an hour.

After Leanne leaves, Sep gazes at her real body and recalls how, during the battle in Aerie Athmeth, he had realized that he truly loved her. When he had seen her falling to her death in the Pteron cave, he had been able to catch her in mid-fall, but not before she had struck the cliff wall several times. Certain that she was dead, Sep had decided to take her body and bury it at the religious totem of the Aerian people on the island of Nahgen, but found that it had vanished. However, as he had hovered over the empty sea, the isle of Nahgen had risen from the sea. After bringing Leanne's body to the Aerian temple, Sep had discovered that she was actually still alive and had then accidentally tripped a mechanism that opened a hidden door into the ancient temple. Sep had ventured inside and discovered advanced technology and many scrolls filled with knowledge that dated from the time of Atlantis. When, after days of searching, he had failed to find anything that could awaken Leanne from her coma, Sep had gone for a walk on the beach and found Shanna's unconscious body. Since one of the Atlantean machines he knew how to operate could direct a patient's brain waves to outside their body, Sep used two of those machines to switch the minds of Leanne and Shanna, enabling Leanne's mind to live in Shanna's body while trapping Shanna's mind in Leanne's comatose body.

However, after meeting Ka-Zar again, the devious Leanne has decided that she would prefer to stay in Shanna's body and believes that Ka-Zar would be a more interesting mate than the love-sick Sep. After making it look like she's been in a struggle, "Shanna" goes back to Ka-Zar and tries to convince him that Sep attacked her and is going to try to use a weird machine to swap her mind with that of a dying Leanne. Although now secretly even more suspicious of how "Shanna" is behaving, Ka-Zar goes to the temple to stop Sep but is attacked as soon as he enters by Sep, who thinks that Ka-Zar's going to steal Leanne from him. During their fight, Ka-Zar hurls Sep into the medical slab, knocking Leanne's body onto the floor. When "Shanna" comes in and urges Ka-Zar to leave with her right away, Ka-Zar doesn't want to leave the injured Leanne behind, but "Shanna" assures him that Leanne is dead, or as good as dead, and implores Ka-Zar to leave with her so they can start afresh. Hearing this restores the perspective Sep had briefly lost and he comes clean about the situation, revealing that he had already switched the minds of the two women. Although "Shanna" claims that Sep is lying, Ka-Zar believes him, considering "Shanna's" recent behavior, grabs "Shanna" when she tries to flee, and then slaps her unconscious when she tries to scratch his eyes out. With Ka-Zar watching, Sep reverses the process, returning Shanna's mind to her own body and Leanne's mind to her comatose body.

When Sep states that he's going to stay with Leanne until she either awakens or dies, Ka-Zar asks why he would stay with her when their whole relationship together had been built on treachery and lies. Sep replies that they belong together. Leaving the grieving Sep sitting beside Leanne, Ka-Zar and Shanna fly away on his skite.

Notes

After being called "Aerie Shalahn" in Ka-Zar the Savage #2 and "Aerie Shalhan" in Ka-Zar the Savage #3, the home of the Aerian bird-people is called "Aerie Shalan" for the first time on page 2 of this issue's story. However, it's also called "Aerie Shalahn" again on page 7. "Shalan" will only become the sole/correct in-story spelling beginning with Ka-Zar the Savage #9.
In the panels on page 3 that show Shanna's unconscious body being found on the beach, the legs of the person who found her (Sep) are depicted as being pink. This coloring is inconsistent with Sep's gray-skinned legs.

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Ka-Zar the Savage Vol 1 4

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